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  • The bar gets set either too high or too low and the entire process becomes self-defeating.
  • BHAGs (aka Big Hairy Audacious Goals)
  • BHAGs have the following attributes: * 50-70% of success * 10-30 year horizon * Requires vision (over tactics and strateg

    how goals help you

  • Direct attention: They focus your effort toward goal-relevant activities and away from goal-irrelevant activities.
  • Get energized: Having goals lets you direct more effort towards their completion.
  • Plan deliberately: Individuals develop strategies that enable them to attain goals.
  • Planning: You download a training schedule (planning) * Execution: You start running * Accountability: There’s a social penalty for not completing them

The case AGAINST goals

  • They are at odds with long-term progress
  • They restrict your happiness
  • They rob you of the present moment
  • They set you up for self-judgement
  • They are arbitrary

  • many people find themselves reverting to their old habits after accomplishing a goal.
  • to the when-then trap, which mistakenly says “Once I achieve [X] then I’ll be happy.”
    • Making happiness contingent on future success is one of the devastating effects of the hedonic treadmill.
  • When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.
  • A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems.
  • The goal in any sport is to finish with the best score, but it would be ridiculous to spend the whole game staring at the scoreboard.
  • The only way to actually win is to get better each day.
  • if you trust your inputs (focus, kindness, self-accountability, habits, a growth mindset) the outputs should take care of themselves.
  • One approach is to turn outcome goals into process goals.
    • An outcome goal is binary, measurable and time-bound such as: * Grow my newsletter audience by 5,000 readers * Lose 10 pounds * Generate $250,000 in annual sales
    • A process goal is non-binary, iterative and ongoing:
      • Send two newsletters every week
      • Work out for 45 minutes five times a week
      • Make three sales calls each day
  • And did you notice how our goals sneakily became habits?

Linking

  • MOC 10K$ framework
  • [[Set project goals]]
  • [[Midjourney V6 prompts examples/030-039 Areas/37 Product/37.06 Goal setting/How to set goals (that actually work)]]
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